Monday play-off no way to end US Open

COULD this US Open have been any better, any more exciting or any more suspenseful?

Well, yes. It could have been all those things and more if only it had ended Sunday night.

The heroics by Tiger Woods on Saturday at Torrey Pines were beyond incredible, bordering on absurd. Two ocean-liner-length eagle putts and a one-bounce-to-the-bottom chip-in. Sunday, the finish turned into a Three Musketeers bar and looked as if we’d end up with a sleeve of golfers in a playoff. The aforementioned Woods, of course, along with crowd-pleaser Rocco Mediate (c’mon, who isn’t rooting for an everyman named Rocco?) and Lee Westwood.